49-1-502 - Model teen learning centers Program authorized. - Tennessee Statutes

49-1-502. Model teen learning centers Program authorized.

In order to reduce the number of teen parents who drop out of school, to improve the long-term employability of teen parents, to reduce welfare dependency, to enhance parenting skills, to increase the availability of quality child care and to improve student awareness of the realities and difficulties inherent in parenthood at an early age, the department of education is authorized to establish the model teen learning center program.

[Acts 1990, ch. 996, § 2; 1996, ch. 1079, § 183.]